horace canning needham



(No Model.)

A..J., H. C. & W. G. NEEDHAM.

LINK FOR FASTENING GUFFS, &c..

Patented Jan. 24, 1893.

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ARTHUR JOSEPH NEEDHAM, HORACE CANNING NEEDHAM, AND WALTER CECIL NEEDHAM,OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

LINK FOR FASTENING CUFFS, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,413, dated January24, 1893.

Application filed January 9, 1892. Serial No. 417,506- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR JOSEPH NEEDHAM, HORACE CANNING NEEDHAM,and-

WALTER CECIL NEEDHAM, all of 6 Hammersmith Terrace, I-Iammersmith,London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Links for Fastening Cuffs and other SimilarArticles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the insertion, into shirtcuffs, and other articles of wearing apparel, of what are known assleeve links.To attain this end, we so construct the buttons on the looplink, constituting together the sleeve link, that by applying pressureto the buttons, they may be brought parallel to the face of the link,and held rigidly in that position, to facilitate their entrance endwiseinto, and passage through, the button holes of the shirt cuff or otherarticle. When thus inserted endwise into the button holes, the buttonsmay be made readily to resume their acting position at an angle to thelink.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a back view of the sleevelink constructed according to our invention, laid out rigidly, or in theposition for insertion into a' cuff.-Fig. 1, is a section on the line wy of Fig. 1.-Fig. 2 is an edge View, corresponding with Fig. 1 and Fig.3 is a side View of the sleeve link, in its acting or retainingposition.--Fig. 4 is a similar view of a slight modification. Fig. 5 isa similar view of another modification.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

In the figures, a a are the buttons, coupled together by a loop linkb.-In the example shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the buttons are eachfurnished, at back, with a rib c, which serves the purpose of a shank,being pierced to receive the loop link b through it. These ribs havealso another object, viz:-to snap into the loop link when pressed intothe position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and thereby give rigidity to thebuttons while being inserted in the end.

The loop link is made preferably of round wire, as usual, and thelateral elasticity of the link is made available for retaining thebuttons for the time being in a position parallel to the link. To securethe snapping action desired, the face of the loop of the link is made ofsuch width that in its nor.- mal condition it will fit easily over theportion of the rib 0 close to the back of the button but the face of therib is slightly broadened or swelled by burnishing or otherwise to forma snap projection c which, when the button is pressed against the link6, will slightly distend the loop laterally, and then pass through it,after which the recoil action or snapping of the loop over the saidprojection 0' will cause the link I) to grip the rib firmly and hold thebutton against the face of the link substantially parallel therewith.

It will now be understood that on the insertion of the sleeve link intothe cufi or other article to which it is to be applied, the buttons maybe readily tipped into the position of Fig. 3, to make the attachmentcomplete.

In some cases we propose to form the loop links with projections, as atcl, Fig. 4, for the purpose, of retaining the buttons in contact withtheir respective button-holes, and keeping the sleeve link at tension.

It will be obvious that instead of giving the rib at the back of thebutton a length equal to the length of the button, as shown at Fig. 1 inthe drawings, which allows of the button being snapped into the looplink at either side thereof, the rib may extend to one end only of thebuttons, as shown at Fig. 4, but we prefer the arrangement shown at Fig.1, as the snapping of the button into its fixed position is therebyfacilitated.-Again, in carrying out our invention, we do not consider itnecessary to form both buttons with a snapping rib at the back, as theadvantage of our invention may be obtained when one button only is thusfurnished as shown in Fig. 5 the other being provided with an ordinaryshank.

Having now described ourinvention, What rib, substantially as and forthe purpose here- IO we claim is:- in set forth.

The combination in a link fastening for H t T cults and similararticles, of two buttons havg 5 ing shanks and a looped link connectingsaid 6 6 E E shanks one of said buttons having on its back 1 J l 1 l arib, a portion of which is swelled to form a I Witnesses: snap and thelink having its loop of a Width H. K. THITE,

to snap over the so swelled portion of said II. T. O. GOETZ.

